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Overview

Lois E. H. Smith is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Ophthalmology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of study include Retinopathy of Prematurity Studies, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Neonatal Health and Biochemistry, Fatty Acid Research and Health, Retinal Development and Disorders, and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Angiogenesis
  • Acta Paediatrica
  • JAMA Ophthalmology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Neonatology

Recent papers authored by or involving Lois E. H. Smith include:

  • Glycolysis links reciprocal activation of myeloid cells and endothelial cells in the retinal angiogenic niche, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Effect of Enteral Lipid Supplement on Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity, 2021, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Vitreous metabolomics profiling of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, 2020, Diabetologia
  • Short-term Outcomes After Very Low-Dose Intravitreous Bevacizumab for Retinopathy of Prematurity, 2020, JAMA Ophthalmology
  • Association of Docosahexaenoic Acid and Arachidonic Acid Serum Levels With Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants, 2021, JAMA Network Open

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lois E. H. Smith include:

  • Ann Hellström
  • Zhongjie Fu
  • Aldina Pivodic
  • Pia Lundgren
  • Anders Nilsson

Best Publications

  • OXYGEN-INDUCED RETINOPATHY IN THE MOUSE

    Lois Elaine Hodgson Smith;Eva Wesolowski;Angela McLellan;Sandra K. Kostyk

  • Suppression of retinal neovascularization in vivo by inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) using soluble VEGF-receptor chimeric proteins

    Lloyd Paul Aiello;Eric A. Pierce;Eliot D. Foley;Hitoshi Takagi

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor expression in a mouse model of retinal neovascularization

    Eric Adam Pierce;R. L. Avery;E. D. Foley;Lloyd Paul Aiello

  • Retinopathy of prematurity

    Ann Hellström;Lois Elaine Hodgson Smith;Lois Elaine Hodgson Smith;Olaf Dammann;Olaf Dammann;Olaf Dammann

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor-induced retinal permeability is mediated by protein kinase C in vivo and suppressed by an orally effective beta-isoform-selective inhibitor.

    Lloyd Paul Aiello;Sven Erik Bursell;Allen Clermont;Elia Duh

  • Increased dietary intake of omega-3-polyunsaturated fatty acids reduces pathological retinal angiogenesis.

    Kip M Connor;John Paul SanGiovanni;Chatarina Lofqvist;Chatarina Lofqvist;Christopher M Aderman

  • Retinopathy of Prematurity

    Jing Chen;Lois E. H. Smith

  • Low IGF-I suppresses VEGF-survival signaling in retinal endothelial cells: direct correlation with clinical retinopathy of prematurity.

    Ann Hellstrom;Carole Perruzzi;Meihua Ju;Eva Engström

  • Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor-dependent retinal neovascularization by insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor.

    Lois E. H. Smith;Wei Shen;Carole Perruzzi;Shay Soker

  • Quantification of oxygen-induced retinopathy in the mouse: a model of vessel loss, vessel regrowth and pathological angiogenesis

    Kip M Connor;Nathan M Krah;Roberta J Dennison;Christopher M Aderman

  • The mouse retina as an angiogenesis model.

    Andreas Stahl;Kip M. Connor;Przemyslaw Sapieha;Jing Chen

  • Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor by oxygen in a model of retinopathy of prematurity

    Eric A. Pierce;Eliot D. Foley;Lois E. H. Smith

  • Postnatal Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Deficiency Is Associated With Retinopathy of Prematurity and Other Complications of Premature Birth

    Ann Hellström;Eva Engström;Anna-Lena Hård;Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland

  • A mechanosensitive transcriptional mechanism that controls angiogenesis

    Akiko Mammoto;Kip Connor;Tadanori Mammoto;Chong W. Yung

  • Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

    Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska;Kari Alitalo;Elizabeth Allen;Andrey Anisimov

  • SIRT1 is essential for normal cognitive function and synaptic plasticity

    Shaday Michán;Ying Li;Maggie Meng Hsiu Chou;Edoardo Parrella

  • Pathogenesis of retinopathy of prematurity

    L E H Smith

  • Essential Role of Growth Hormone in Ischemia-Induced Retinal Neovascularization

    Lois E. H. Smith;Lois E. H. Smith;Lois E. H. Smith;John J. Kopchick;John J. Kopchick;John J. Kopchick;Wen Chen;Wen Chen;Wen Chen;Joanne Knapp;Joanne Knapp;Joanne Knapp

  • Oligodeoxynucleotides inhibit retinal neovascularization in a murine model of proliferative retinopathy

    Gregory S. Robinson;Eric A. Pierce;Susan L. Rook;Elliot Foley

  • Integrated Systems Approach to Study the Role of Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Health and Disease of the Retina

    J. P. SanGiovanni;C. M. Aderman;C. Rojas;T. E. Clemons

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Chemtob
Sylvain Chemtob University of Montreal
Timothy S. Kern
Timothy S. Kern University of California, Irvine
Martin Friedlander
Martin Friedlander Scripps Research Institute
Jin Chen
Jin Chen Vanderbilt University
Olaf Dammann
Olaf Dammann Tufts University
Staffan Nilsson
Staffan Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Karsten Gronert
Karsten Gronert University of California, Berkeley
David A. Sinclair
David A. Sinclair Harvard University
Emily Y. Chew
Emily Y. Chew National Institutes of Health
Eric A. Pierce
Eric A. Pierce Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

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